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How Crime Spreads Through Imitation in Social Networks: A Simulation Model

Valentina Punzo

subject

Financial economicsmedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciences050602 political science & public administrationEconomicsPositive economicsImitationSet (psychology)0506 political sciencemedia_commonSocial influence

description

In this chapter an agent-based model for investigating how crime spreads through social networks is presented. Some theoretical issues related to the sociological explanation of crime are tested through simulation. The agent-based simulation allows us to investigate the relative impact of some mechanisms of social influence on crime, within a set of controlled simulated experiments.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2016-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23938-5_10